Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all read more

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you read more

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the read more

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not read more

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.